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1988 Land-Rover One Two Seven BBC TV outside broadcast unit

1988 Land-Rover One Two Seven in Between The Lines, TV Series, 1992-1994 Ep. 2.01

Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin:

1988 Land-Rover One Two Seven BBC TV outside broadcast unit

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dsl ◊ 2016-12-08 04:32	Not convinced this deserves a permanent page, but was intrigued so posting to see if anyone can connect it with anything. Looks like an LWB special build TV unit Land Rover with lots of technical gizmos on the roof which go up and down.
eLMeR ◊ 2016-12-12 05:44	@ dsl: If helpful, this Land has the door handle of a 1983+ Ninety / One Ten / Defender... Is it something like that (the second lacking 2 doors )? (From Flickr // For sale)
Exiv96 ◊ 2016-12-12 12:57	I'm intrigued by the doors. On first sight, it looks like a 130 pickup with bedcover, but what should be the front door, on the right, is a rather narrow side window. But it must be a door, because you can see a hinge just under that window, on the second thumbpic, just like the one on the rear door.
dsl ◊ 2016-12-12 13:41	I was thinking something like a 130" crewcab with custom compartment on back.Extra doors have apparently Land Rover hinges, and roof top has cladding so designed to take weight of people, not just a fibreglass box. Maybe a special build variants from Land Rover itself??
Sunbar ◊ 2016-12-12 17:35	^ dsl agreed the proportions look about right for 130" crew cab, with the insertion of an equipment locker door in the middle. A very approximate idea of what the cab could look like.
Sandie ◊ 2016-12-12 17:52	Link to "forums.lr4x4.com" Quote I haven't got a 130 - but I saw this ex-BBC outside broadcast unit on eBay a while back and kept the pictures - Front badge says 110 but it should be a 127/130. If we assume it's the same vehicle or from the same batch it's an F plate so pre-Defender and as such it's 127.
dsl ◊ 2016-12-12 18:12	Sandie's find looks very good match. As this was a BBC TV series, it would make sense to use a handy BBC vehicle on set. F plate = 1988-89. And I think we've got it pinned down closely enough to keep the page - even if we've got the wrong one, there's useful info here for future reference. Maybe one of our occasional BBC vehicle expert visitors might know more??
Collator ◊ 2017-08-07 01:29	There were at least eight Land Rovers registered with E to H prefixes which were used by the BBC. Built by Scotts Broadcasting(SBS), they all seem to have been originally supplied with 3.5 ltr V8 petrol engines. Four vehicles 2x Fs, a G and an H reg were conventional 110 Station Wagon type vehicles with solid panels behind the 'C' pillar - I believe that Land Rover called later vehicles of this type 110 Utilities. One of these vehicles may be the BBC Land Rover that has been found in the film "Robinson in Space" elsewhere on IMCDB. Three of the remaining vehicles, and possibly the fourth also, have wheelbases extended to 120" and are fitted with high roof bodies as shown in Sandie's post. All again started life with V8 petrol engines. One vehicle registered E752 EBY was painted in the then current light over dark grey BBC fleet livery, and used by Television Outside Broadcasts. Two of the other vehicles were originally painted a different shade of light grey from E752 EBY with no obvious BBC identification or logos and were used by BBC News and Current Affairs. My guess is that the vehicles in "Between the Lines" and in the ebay photos could be one of these which were registered F131 OYM and F287 OYM. Incidently the ones I have seen had a badge on the front marked "Land Rover" with no wheelbase marked, my guess is that they were 110 with an extended wheelbase not 127s cut down!! Unfortunately I have only a reg number for the fourth vehicle, E748 EBY, with a note that it has an extended wheelbase, but no other details about it. All these vehicles were fitted with extending masts for receiving and/or transmitting purposes and pre-dated the satellite uplink vehicles in use more recently. -- Last edit: 2020-01-14 22:54:51 (dsl)
simon2010 ◊ 2020-02-29 08:40	Here is E748EBY being recovered from a barn. https://youtu.be/WazOtdBb3jY

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